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Ultrafast spintronics

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A model describing spin-dependent conduction in metals underpins modern magnetic technologies. Magnetotransport under the fundamental conditions of this model has now been probed experimentally.

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Figure 1: Mott's model of the density of states for several metals.

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  1. Hiroto Adachi is at the Advanced Science Research Center, Japan Atomic Energy Agency, Tokai 319-1195, Japan and ERATO, Spin Quantum Rectification Project, Japan Science and Technology Agency, Sendai 980-8577, Japan,

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